City Homes

inside 15 cpw

Healing Barsanti makes a cool statement at the city's hottest address

The Robert A.M. Stern–designed hi-rise at 15 Central Park West may be one of the city’s hottest addresses, but Daniel Barsanti approached the design of its 30th-floor apartment with a level-headed sense of cool.

space in time

When John Saladino updates a mid-century Manhattan apartment, things take a classical turn

“It's a constant checkmating, as if I'm playing chess in three dimensions,” says interior designer John Saladino of the juxtapositions he employs (and enjoys) in executing his signature interiors. The apartment here, a typical two-bedroom in a luxury white-brick 1960s high-rise, was...

taking the plunge

William Diamond and Anthony Baratta bring oceanic cool to a Chelsea duplex

William Diamond and Anthony Baratta's client so loved the sea that she wanted a wall of fish tanks in her new 4,000-square-foot duplex. It didn’t happen.

west side sky box

Subtle details reshape a pared-down Manhattan hi-rise

When the owners of this Upper West side apartment consulted with Daniel Barsanti about their newly acquired “white box,” the designer needed few instructions.“They’ve been clients for 24 years. Our firm had done two previous projects for them,and each was specific to its location,”...

add & subtract

Judiciously displayed collections define an Astor Place apartment

Working with clients who are collectors, says designer Frank Faulkner, means having access to a well-stocked pantry. “You can put together a ‘meal’ without it being a treasure hunt for the perfect ingredient.” Faulkner,distant kin to the literary William and an artist in his own right,...

color form

Christopher Coleman balances neutrals with brights on the Upper East Side

“You can't judge people by how they dress,” observes designer Christopher Coleman, citing the owner of this five-bedroom East Side apartment.“Every time we met,he was in a suit—I thought he was really buttoned up.” But when Coleman set three design schemes before his client,“he went for the edgy...

going coastal

Tropical brights look right in a designer’s city apartment and Connecticut studio

It's not just the sunny colors in Lynn Morgan's rooms that make one want to exhale, but the designer herself: Relaxed and unpretentious, Morgan brings the tropical colors and effortless living of her native Savannah—where she grew up sailing and crabbing—to the homes she designs from...

brooklyn express

Abstract expressionist Robert Szot problem solves on canvas, creating high-impact works filled with feeling

“I started painting when I lived in Austin, but everyone I had ever admired as an artist had spent a lot of time in New York, and I wanted to experience this city for myself,” says Robert Szot.

play the blues

Modern art serves as muse in an 1880s townhouse revived by William Diamond and Anthony Baratta

If the interior spaces of this Upper East Side townhouse read like paintings, it’s no accident. “You can walk into any room and know exactly where to focus,” says William Diamond, just as one experiences a good piece of art. With sure strokes and clear hues, Diamond and design partner Anthony...

got it cornered

Janna Bullock brings contemporary art to a corner condo at the Plaza

Art, architecture, and design hold equal importance in every space revamped by Janna Bullock, the Russian-born real estate developer who made a name for herself in New York buying, renovating, and reselling townhouses on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “For art and architecture to cohabitate, it is...